Stefano Manfredi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Manfredi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Manfredi |
| SIGNATURE | MANFREDI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3648-5815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A corpus-driven description of o in Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin)
Widely attested in both creole and non-creole languages of the Atlantic basin, the function word o has been traditionally described as a ‘sentence/phrase final particle’, owing to its typical syntactic behaviour, rather than to its multiple grammatical meanings. Based on the corpus-driven analysis of the NaijaSynCor, a ~400K words corpus of spoken Naijá (i.e., Nigerian Pidgin), this study suggests that sentence-final o can be better described as …
Pain Constructions in modern Arabic dialects
Pain Constructions (PCs) constitute a class of experiential constructions expressing situations that involve unpleasant physical experiences (e.g. headache , burning eyes, dizziness , etc.). Previous cross-linguistic comparisons have shown that, though languages do not have dedicated morphosyntactic structures for encoding pain, there are certain constructions that are more likely to express physical experiences. Based on original data elicited b…
An areal typology of kin terms in the Nuba Mountain languages
Despite the relatively large amount of linguistic and anthropological data on kinship terminologies in the languages of the Nuba Mountains, we still lack cross-linguistic studies attempting at reconstructing the areal history of this highly variable lexical field. This paper aims at comparing the formal and semantic features of kin terms across the languages of the Nuba Mountains in order to provide historical evidence for their transmission thro…
A grammar of Pichi
International audience
Towards a Dialect History of the Baggara Belt
The Baggara Belt constitutes the southernmost periphery of the Arabic-speaking world. It stretches over 2500 km from Nigeria to Sudan and it is largely inhabited by Arab semi-nomadic cattle herders. Despite its common sociohistorical background, the ethnography of Baggara nomads is complex, being the result of a long series of longitudinal migrations and contacts with different ethnolinguistic groups. Thanks to a number of comparative works, ther…
Mots et identités de la révolution de Décembre au Soudan
À partir d’un glossaire de la troisième révolution soudanaise et suivant une approche sociolinguistique, cette note analyse le discours portant sur les questions identitaires (ethnicité, genre, classe, tribu) qui est véhiculé dans les slogans du mouvement de contestation de 2018-2019
Ethnicité, religion, nationalisme
Au Soudan, les notions d’arabité et d’islamité sont au cœur des critères définissant les inscriptions identitaires qui affectent encore largement les dynamiques locales. Ces deux notions, sources de tension jusqu’à nos jours, se conjuguent avec la notion d’identité nationale, ou « soudanité » dont la construction, rendue complexe par l’héritage colonial, a débouché sur de nombreuses impasses en phase postcoloniale. Ces trois notions sont au centr…
Juba Arabic (Arabi Juba)
This article explores the official discourse behind the regimentation of the linguistic situation of South Sudan and assesses its impact on local linguistic practices against the backdrop of a sociolinguistic survey and interviews with government officials. After a presentation of the language situation of the country, the article focuses on Juba Arabic and its unrecognized status as the only lingua franca of South Sudan. The Constitution of the …
‘One Tribe, One Language’
Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Script in Africa
About the substitution of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate among Igala speakers of English _ Cognate object constructions in Degema _ La multifonctionalit des conjonctions
Demonstratives and the emergence of a definite article in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi
In this study I provide a description of the morphosyntax and the functions of demonstratives in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi, two closely related Arabic-based contact languages. The study describes the process of acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and determiners and it explains the formal and functional changes that have taken place in the demonstrative system of Arabic as a consequence of pidginization and subsequent creolization. Broadly speaki…
The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba Arabic
The article discusses the information structure of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgincreole of South Sudan, showing how the expression of topic and focus is the result of a complex interaction of morphosyntactic and prosodic means. While the lexical elements used in the expression of topic and focus are Arabic-derived, no such influence can be found in the prosody. Both topic- and focus-marked utterances can be opposed to neutral ones. Topics ar…
Juba Arabic (Arabi Juba)
This article explores the official discourse behind the regimentation of the linguistic situation of South Sudan and assesses its impact on local linguistic practices against the backdrop of a sociolinguistic survey and interviews with government officials. After a presentation of the language situation of the country, the article focuses on Juba Arabic and its unrecognized status as the only lingua franca of South Sudan. The Constitution of the …
The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba Arabic
The article discusses the information structure of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgincreole of South Sudan, showing how the expression of topic and focus is the result of a complex interaction of morphosyntactic and prosodic means. While the lexical elements used in the expression of topic and focus are Arabic-derived, no such influence can be found in the prosody. Both topic- and focus-marked utterances can be opposed to neutral ones. Topics ar…
Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Script in Africa
About the substitution of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate among Igala speakers of English _ Cognate object constructions in Degema _ La multifonctionalit des conjonctions
Demonstratives and the emergence of a definite article in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi
In this study I provide a description of the morphosyntax and the functions of demonstratives in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi, two closely related Arabic-based contact languages. The study describes the process of acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and determiners and it explains the formal and functional changes that have taken place in the demonstrative system of Arabic as a consequence of pidginization and subsequent creolization. Broadly speaki…
‘One Tribe, One Language’
Juba Arabic (Arabi Juba)
This article explores the official discourse behind the regimentation of the linguistic situation of South Sudan and assesses its impact on local linguistic practices against the backdrop of a sociolinguistic survey and interviews with government officials. After a presentation of the language situation of the country, the article focuses on Juba Arabic and its unrecognized status as the only lingua franca of South Sudan. The Constitution of the …
Mots et identités de la révolution de Décembre au Soudan
À partir d’un glossaire de la troisième révolution soudanaise et suivant une approche sociolinguistique, cette note analyse le discours portant sur les questions identitaires (ethnicité, genre, classe, tribu) qui est véhiculé dans les slogans du mouvement de contestation de 2018-2019
Ethnicité, religion, nationalisme
Au Soudan, les notions d’arabité et d’islamité sont au cœur des critères définissant les inscriptions identitaires qui affectent encore largement les dynamiques locales. Ces deux notions, sources de tension jusqu’à nos jours, se conjuguent avec la notion d’identité nationale, ou « soudanité » dont la construction, rendue complexe par l’héritage colonial, a débouché sur de nombreuses impasses en phase postcoloniale. Ces trois notions sont au centr…
A grammar of Pichi
International audience
Towards a Dialect History of the Baggara Belt
The Baggara Belt constitutes the southernmost periphery of the Arabic-speaking world. It stretches over 2500 km from Nigeria to Sudan and it is largely inhabited by Arab semi-nomadic cattle herders. Despite its common sociohistorical background, the ethnography of Baggara nomads is complex, being the result of a long series of longitudinal migrations and contacts with different ethnolinguistic groups. Thanks to a number of comparative works, ther…
Pain Constructions in modern Arabic dialects
Pain Constructions (PCs) constitute a class of experiential constructions expressing situations that involve unpleasant physical experiences (e.g. headache , burning eyes, dizziness , etc.). Previous cross-linguistic comparisons have shown that, though languages do not have dedicated morphosyntactic structures for encoding pain, there are certain constructions that are more likely to express physical experiences. Based on original data elicited b…
An areal typology of kin terms in the Nuba Mountain languages
Despite the relatively large amount of linguistic and anthropological data on kinship terminologies in the languages of the Nuba Mountains, we still lack cross-linguistic studies attempting at reconstructing the areal history of this highly variable lexical field. This paper aims at comparing the formal and semantic features of kin terms across the languages of the Nuba Mountains in order to provide historical evidence for their transmission thro…
A corpus-driven description of o in Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin)
Widely attested in both creole and non-creole languages of the Atlantic basin, the function word o has been traditionally described as a ‘sentence/phrase final particle’, owing to its typical syntactic behaviour, rather than to its multiple grammatical meanings. Based on the corpus-driven analysis of the NaijaSynCor, a ~400K words corpus of spoken Naijá (i.e., Nigerian Pidgin), this study suggests that sentence-final o can be better described as …
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Arabic (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works)